why is the name of a color used after a subject in a spanish sentence

Question

why is it " fresa rojo" instead of "rojo fresa"

Right now some Spanish native is wondering why English sentences don't start with capital letters or end with punctuation. - Yeser007, OCT 28, 2009

Answer 1

Basically because Spanish is structured differently than English. For most (but not all) cases the descriptive adjective will follow the noun rather than precede it. Here are a couple of links that you might find useful:

Descriptive adjectives

Adjective Placement

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Answer 2

Do you mean after a noun?

I'm not sure that it does always follow the noun, but it does in the majority of the cases. The reason is that colors are considered descriptive adjectives.